Kings of Pastry is a riveting, moving, and sometimes heartbreaking documentary about the competition for one of most honored prizes in France, The Meilleurs Ouvriers de France. Awarded every four years,The Meilleurs Ouvriers de France is a prize awarded to the top pastry chefs and was created over fifty years ago to affirm the importance of manual labor. The intense and grueling three-day competition is the stuff pastry legends are made and hardened of.

The story is about the dream of Jacquy Pfeiffer, the celebrated pastry chef and co-founder of the highly reputable French Pastry School in Chicago (the only school in the US. fully dedicated to teaching only baking), to win the ultimate prize of the pastry world, the red white, and blue Meilleurs Ouvriers collar. Competing with 15 other finalists, the film follows him from his months of preparation and perfecting his techniques in Chicago and in the final month in different pastry kitchens in France, to the awards ceremony in Lyon, with President Sarkozy presiding. Veteran documentary filmmakers Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker switch gears from the political turmoil of Washington with the film The War Room, to the exclusive and impassioned world of French pastry making.

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